Pompeo: Iran is a world threat, is in for the strongest US sanctions in history

US Secretary Mike Pompeo on May 21 threatened Iran that unless it meets 12 US conditions, the Islamic Republic faces “unprecedented financial pressure.” In a speech delivered to the Heritage Institute, he laid out an exceptionally tough policy as a follow-up of the US exit from the 2015 nuclear accord. The conditions he laid down raised a stop sign for European efforts to salvage the accord by persuading Iran to renegotiate its terms, efforts that have been spearheaded by French President Emmanuel Macron. Pompeo made it clear that any improvements or amendments to the original deal which, he said, “put the world at risk because of its flaws,” were no longer open to discussion. Instead, he slapped down before Tehran a long list of conditions as an ultimatum to comply with, or face “the strongest sanctions in history once they come into full force” adding that the “string of sanctions will only grow more painful if the regime does not change course.”

As for European business relations with Tehran, Pompeo made it clear that “punitive sanctions” would be applied to those who breach US sanctions.

Pompeo spoke of “unprecedented financial pressure” on Iran, which he called the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism. He predicted that the Islamic Republic will be “battling to keep its economy alive” under the sanctions and will have to choose between maintaining its economy or sponsoring terrorist and insurgent groups like Hizballah, Hamas, or Islamic Jihad, in countries like Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Yemen.

The key demands Pompeo laid down for Iran included:

Releasing all its nuclear materials on the military applications of its nuclear program to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

Halting all grades of uranium enrichment.

Dismantling enrichment facilities and nuclear reactors.

Giving up the development of ballistic missiles.

Withdrawing military forces from Syria

Discontinuing support for Hizballah and the Palestinian Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

Withdrawing its support from the Yemeni Houthi insurgency.

Abandoning its threats to Red Sea shipping.

Cutting off its arms supplies to the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Putting a stop to threats against Israel and Gulf nations.

Pompeo said that should Iran make “major changes,” the US will be willing to lift all sanctions.
DEBKAfile’s sources: Pompeo’s detailed ultimatum will be taken in Tehran as a declaration of war by America on the Islamic Republic of Iran. The “maximum pressure” policy for Iran was not unexpected in view of the forthcoming nuclear negotiations ahead of the Trump administration and North Korea. Tough US sanctions are also seen to be well integrated with Israel’s continuous military assaults on the military sites Iran has been establishing in Syria. The regime in Tehran will no doubt forcefully slam Pompeo’s ultimatum and may retaliate by resuming uranium enrichment coupled with military steps. On Monday, May 21, the US may be said to have gone to war against Iran.

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Muslims are demanded to kill Jews and all infidels, when it can be used to their advantage. The ultimate goal of Islam is global domination.

The following is a statement by the late Ayatollah Khomeini about the goals of Islam.

Islam makes it incumbent on all adult males, provided they are not disabled and incapacitated, to prepare themselves for the conquest of other [countries] so that the writ of Islam is obeyed in every country in the world. But those who study Islamic Holy War will understand why Islam wants to conquer the whole world…Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war. Those [who say this] are witless. Islam says: Kill all the unbelievers just as they would kill you all! Does this mean that Muslims should sit back until they are devoured [by the unbelievers]?

Islam says: Kill them [the non-Muslims], put them to the sword and scatter [their armies]. Does this mean sitting back until [non-Muslims] overcome us? Islam says: Kill in the service of Allah those who may want to kill you! Does this mean that we should surrender to the enemy? Islam says: Whatever good there is exists thanks to the sword and in the shadow of the sword! People cannot be made obedient except with the sword! The sword is the key to Paradise, which can be opened only for Holy Warriors! There are hundreds of other [Koranic] psalms and Hadiths [sayings of the Prophet] urging Muslims to value war and to fight. Does all that mean that Islam is a religion that prevents men from waging war? I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim.

We shall export our revolution, to the whole world. Until the cry ‘Allahu Akbar’ resounds over the whole world.

Mark Riebling in his article Why America Slept (April 24, 02) wrote that in 1992, Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, chairman of the Iranian Islamic Information Organization, and spokesman for the deceased Khomeni’s successor, gave a sermon for Friday Prayers at Tehran University. In that sermon he said that Islam was mobilizing for a “third world war against the West”. Riebling wrote:

On that same January 1, a group of Islamic leaders, both secular and fundamentalist — including Muammar Qaddafi, Saddam Hussein, and clerics from Iran, Egypt, Algeria, the Sudan, and Afghanistan — jointly announced a new holy crusade against Christian nations. Their stated ultimate aim was to achieve the united Islamic front which Jannati, and before him Khomeini, had sought. Their more immediate aim was to destroy pro-Western regimes in the Middle-East, to seize the gulf and its weak oil-rich sheikdoms, and to eradicate that singular affront to Islam: Israel and its backer, the United States. Coincident with the January 1 declaration, the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hamas issued a communiqué of solidarity:

“These Christians and Jews, these descendants of monkeys, now rule in all the nations of the world, but their day, too, will come. Allah! Kill them all, do not leave even one! It is the fate of the Jews and Christians to be slaughtered by our hands. We have taken upon ourselves to fulfill our obligation to society and to torture them because torture is the fate of the Jews and the Christians. No Jew and no Christian is innocent. All Jews and all Christians must be killed. Throughout history they have only brought bad luck to the world.”

During January 1993 this rhetoric turned into violent reality. In Latin America, dozens of American?owned oil pipelines in Latin America were demolished by bombers believed to have been backed by Iran. In Egypt, scores of Coptic Christians were brutally murdered, busloads of Western tourists were shot up, and archaeological museums were bombed. In Turkey, a prominent leftist critic of fundamentalism was blown to oblivion when four Iranians booby?trapped his car. In Italy, a gunman on a motor scooter killed the top Iranian opposition figure in exile. In Yemen, the Pentagon withdrew American military personnel after bombings outside the U.S. Embassy and at several hotels. In Algeria, the Armed Islamic Group beheaded Christian writers, intellectuals, unveiled women, French Trappist monks and a a Catholic bishop. In the United States, a Pakistani Muslim shot several CIA employees to death outside the agency’s headquarters.

And on January 2, a man named Saeed Alghamdi obtained a driver’s license in Delray Beach, Florida, and began building an identity as a “student. He was the first of the eventual World Trade Center hijackers to arrive in the U.S. — and the trail he left, which we can trace in retrospect, begins just one day after the joint Islamic Declaration of War against the West.

Jihad is obligatory until the word of Allah reigns supreme, and until all are of the religion of Allah, until the religion of Allah triumphs over all religions and until they pay the poll tax while in a state of inferiority.

In the Muslim community, the holy war is a religious duty, because of the universalism of the [Muslim] mission and [the obligation to] convert everybody to Islam either by persuasion or by force…

Professor Daniel Pipes, in his article in the JEWISH PRESS of November 9th The Danger Within: Militant Islam in America” quotes the first Islamic missionaries who arrived in America in the 1920s. They declared then:

Our plan is that we are going to conquer America.

The late Ismail Al-Faruqi, a Palestinian immigrant who founded the International Institute of Islamic Thought and taught for many years at Temple University in Philadelphia wrote that:

Nothing could be greater than this youthful, vigorous, and rich continent [of North America] turning away from its past evil and marching forward under the banner of Allahu Akbar [God is great].

Siraj Wahaj, a black convert to Islam and the recipient of some of the American Muslim community’s highest honors, had the privilege of becoming the first Muslim to deliver the daily prayer in the U.S. House of Representatives. On that occasion he recited from the Qur’an and appealed to the Almighty to guide American leaders “and grant them righteousness and wisdom.”

A little over a year later, addressing an audience of New Jersey Muslims, the same Wahaj articulated a rather different message from his mild and moderate invocation in the House. If only Muslims were more clever politically, he told his New Jersey listeners, they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional government with a caliphate. “If we were united and strong, we’d elect our own emir [leader] and give allegiance to him…Take my word, if 6-8 million Muslims unite in America, the country will come to us.”

Daniel Pipes in his article “CAIR: Moderate Friends of Terror” (New York Post 4/22/02) wrote that:

As reported by the San Ramon Valley Herald, CAIR Chairman Omar M. Ahmad told a crowd of California Muslims in July 1998, “Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran . . . should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth.”

The Nation of Islam is very anti-American (New York Post 10/25/02). Malcolm X dismissed his American passport as signifying “the exact opposite of what Islam stands for.” Louis Farrakhan announced that “God will destroy America at the hands of Muslims.”

Sheik Omar Bakri Muhammed, the judge of the Shari’ah court for the UK as of 12/4/01 explains on his web site that Islam is in contradiction of article 4 of the U.N. charter. Article 4 states that: ‘All members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against territorial integrity or political independence of any state or in any other manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations’. Sheik Omar Bakri Muhammed explains that:

Islamic foreign policy directly collides with this article. Islamic foreign policy is based on carrying the Islamic Da’wah to the whole world.

Dr. Zaki Badwari, former Director of the Islamic Cultural Centre of London wrote,

A proselytizing religion [like Islam] cannot stand still. Islam endeavors to expand in Britain. It aims at bringing its message to all corners of the earth. It hopes that one day the whole of humanity will be one Muslim community, the Umma.

A Tunisian convicted of setting off bombs in France in 1985-86, killing thirteen, declared to the French judge handling his case (from Daniel Pipe’s book review of Islamic Threat, Myth or Reality, Wall Street Journal Oct 20, 1992):

I do not renounce my fight against the West which assassinated the Prophet Muhammad. . . . We Muslims should kill every last one of you [Westerners].

In 710 A.D. the Islamic armies crossed the Straits of Gibraltar and quickly conquered three-fourths of Spain and Portugal. They then invaded France and took one-third of the nation. They were 125 miles from Paris when they were defeated at the Battle of Poitiers in 732 A.D. by a French army led by Charles Martel.

Jan Hoeven in his essay (Threat Of Islam To Both Jews And Christians 5/6/01) wrote that even though Islam receded into a dormant state at the hands of Charles Martel, the religion never gave up its fiercely held dream of one day conquering all the earth for Allah and Islam.

A second powerful attempt to subjugate all of Europe was made 900 years later in the 17th Century when the Turks began to expand their Ottoman Empire. They took Greece, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and parts of Romania and Hungary. By 1683 they had reached the gates of Vienna where once again the Western forces won against overwhelming odds.

After the American liberation of Iraq in 2003, Syrian Arab Republic radio carried a live Friday sermon from the al-Zahra Mosque in Damascus, delivered by a member of the Syrian People’s Assembly, Shaykh Dr. Muhammad Habash in which he expressed the Islamic desire for world domination. Habash said:(Israel National News April 21, 2003)

Our hearts are bleeding and our eyes are full of tears as we see what is happening to beloved Iraq …The dark hours we are witnessing are due to our divisions and separation from God. This is the hour of truth….. We have to release our cultural energies and resurrect our past glories so that we can again become masters of the world,

According to an article called Al Qaeda Empire in Pakistan & Spurt in Terrorism in Kashmir (11/26/02) , by B. Raman published by the South Asia Analysis Group,

Pakistan-based pan-Islamic terrorist organisations, which are allied with Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda in his International Islamic Front(IIF), have been consistent in the pursuit of their long-term strategy directed against India. They look upon Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) as the gateway to India and repeatedly underline that the “liberation” of J&K would be only the first stage of their jihad against India. According to them, the second stage would be the “liberation” of Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh and Junagadh in Gujarat, which they look upon as rightly belonging to Pakistan and the third and final stage would be the “liberation” of the Muslims in the rest of India as a prelude to the formation of an Islamic Caliphate in South Asia.

Similarly Arafat and the Palestinian Authority have a plan to eliminate Israel in stages. The Plan of Stages” was approved by the Palestinian National Council (PNC) in Cairo in 1974.

Speaking in Ramallah, one of the main ideologues of Yasser Arafat’s Fatah organization, Sakher Habash, declared:

[A]t this stage it is imperative that we realize our temporary political goal continued in the establishment of an independent Palestinian state whose capital is Jerusalem within the 4 June borders, and this will lead to a democratic solution of building democratic Palestine on all the national land [emphasis added]. I believe that the time is not appropriate to speak about the revolution to liberate all of the land….The Palestinian state whatever it will be will constitute of beginning of the dismantling of the Zionist enterprise” (al-Hayat al-Jadida, Nov. 17, 2000).

Ziad al-Rajub, a member of Fatah’s Higher Committee in the West Bank, said:

The political platform of Fatah, today, is the Stages Plan, that was forced on the PLO leadership after the defeats that the Arabs suffered, one after the other….The sons of Palestine, and Fatah among them, are not permitted to accept Israel as a permanent state on the soil of Palestine.” (Akhbar al-Halil, 24.1.01)

At first, Palestine is Islamic not Christian. Second, Jews are obligated to follow the Torah and promised God to do so (God made an eternal covenant with the Children of Israel). No conversion possible (neither to so called Christianity nor Islam). Third, a Jew is a Jew because he was born as a Jew (or a convert according to the Halakha), this makes a conversion impossible in anyway. Fourth, there is no world peace, so the messiah has not come yet (according to the Jewish scriptures).

Big deal… Sanctions have never worked. They are always tried, and always fail. Now, with the EU siding with Iran, even the weak Sanctions that the US would use will be totally ineffective. It may give us a chance to rip some EU corporations to shreds for Sanctions busting, and that is a good thing.

Don’t you know the Bible…??? I mean for a bunch of Jews that have no idea what this means is foolish… According to Jeremiah 50/51… God uses Iran to lead various nations and superpowers against and around the US. The US is completely wiped out. Iran wins. And it is the venegence of the Lord. And his tool and chosen nation is actually Iran. Iran is a direct descendant of Shem… To be against Iran. Is about as pure anti Semitism as one could get. Because the word Semite derives from SEM/SHEM. – This is why very often the Jews and the term anti Semitic doesn’t quite fit? Iran are about as close to Shem as you could get. They are not Jews. But Persians… Oh dear… Israel and America. I care for you very much… But for the US and Israel. They are about to destroy themselves…

Behold, as a lion that ascends from the heights of the Jordan to a strong dwelling, when I bring the moment [that] I will hasten them over her, for who is like Me and who will appoint Me a time, and who is a shepherd who will stand before Me?

Goyim, . . . I’m not sure which of your meds you missed, . . . but that is probably the must ludicrous and ignorant a rant I’ve read in a long time, . . . actually is worse than Hillarys 15 reasons she lost the election. The Jewish people descend from the tribe of Judah, . . . from which also Jesus came, . . . THEY are His people, . . . the camel jockeys of Iran are simply a bunch of left over Persians that developed over the centuries from whatever scum could survive in the area. You need to go find someone to explain to you that Marvel does not produce Bibles, . . . those are comic books you’ve been reading.

From the report that Babylon was taken, the earth quaked, and a cry was heard among the nations.

surely we haven’t heard it yet

Tehillim – Psalms – Chapter 97

1. The Lord has reigned, the earth will exult; many islands will rejoice.
The Lord has reigned: when He takes the kingdom from Amalek and from his descendants.
the earth will exult: This is what Ezekiel said (35:14): “When the whole earth rejoices, I shall make you desolate.” He prophesied this concerning Amalek.

2. Cloud and thick darkness are around Him; righteousness and judgment are the foundation of His throne.

3. Fire will go before Him and will burn His enemies all around.
Fire will go before Him: in the war of Gog and Magog, for it is written concerning his war (Ezek. 38:22): “And I shall plead against him with pestilence and with blood, and rain bringing floods and great hailstones, fire and brimstone.”

‘…hail shall sweep away the shelter of lies, and water shall flood the hidingplace.’

Behold God [has] a strong and powerful [wind], like a downpour of hail, a storm of destruction, like a stream of powerful, flooding water, He lays it on the land with [His] hand.

And there shall be on every high mountain and on every raised hill, canals, rivulets of water, on the day of the great slaying, when the great ones fall.

Luke 17:30

English Standard Version (ESV)

30 so will it be on the day when the Son of Man is revealed.

Stay where you are and don’t go off looking for him! For the day of the Son of Man will be like lightning flashing from one end of the sky to the other. But before that happens, he must go through much suffering and be utterly rejected by this generation. In the time of the coming of the Son of Man, life will be as it was in the days of Noah. People ate and drank, married and were given in marriage, [b][red]right up to the day when Noah entered the ark—and then came the flood and destroyed them all[/red][/b]. It will be just the same as it was in the days of Lot. People ate and drank, bought and sold, planted and built, but on the day that Lot left Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. That is how it will be on the day when the Son of Man is revealed. When that day comes, the man who is on the roof of his house, with his goods inside it, must not come down to get them. And the man out in the fields must not turn back for anything. Remember what happened to Lot’s wife. Whoever tries to preserve his life will lose it, and the man who is prepared to lose his life will preserve it. I tell you, that night there will be two men in one bed, one man will be taken and the other will be left. Two women will be turning the grinding-mill together; one will be taken and the other left.”

Malachi – Chapter 3

15. And now we praise the bold transgressors. Yea, those who work wickedness are built up. Yea, they tempt God, and they have, nevertheless, escaped.

16. Then the God-fearing men spoke to one another, and the Lord hearkened and heard it. And a book of remembrance was written before Him for those who feared the Lord and for those who valued His name highly.

17. And they shall be Mine, says the Lord of Hosts, for that day when I make a treasure. And I will have compassion on them as a man has compassion on his son who serves him.

18. And you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who has not served Him.

19. For lo, the sun comes, glowing like a furnace, and all the audacious sinners and all the perpetrators
of wickedness will be stubble. And the sun that comes shall burn them up so that it will leave them neither root nor branch, says the Lord of Hosts.

20. And the sun of mercy shall rise with healing in its wings for you who fear My Name. Then will you go forth and be fat as fatted calves.

The world cannot get used to a Jewish people and a Jewish state which is strong and lighting the way with marvels of science, technology, medicine and in all facets of business, arts and commerce.

It is a jealous and envious world we inhabit. A world used to dhimmi and shetl Jews who obeyed the commands of Christian and Islamic overlords who did not allow us any freedom.

The miracle of modern Israel has reversed this trend and it is the ultimate answer to the Holocaust – we no longer follow orders to jump into the ovens and have the power to make our tormentors think twice about actually putting to practice their old habits of killing and scapegoating the Jewish people.

So beware those who try because the new expression is: “Terrorize us at your own risk.”

The USA is not Babylon as it is in Iran/Iraq. Like wild beasts the decedents of Ishmael will be trouble for the whole world. Just because they are trouble don’t mean they are the winning side. I have already won and I know it with a faith based on inter-relationship with the invisible God. I know him and he calls me by my name. I hear His voice, see his hand. Even if the paper-lion iran could win and kill us all they still lose. We already have life hid in God and will return with him when he returns to Jerusalem to repay those unbelievers who attacked his chosen. The decedents of Izaak. Truth will prevail not some false religion.

When are the americans going to wake up to the fact they are not the world police and they have no right forcing their will on other sovereign nations, regardless of who they are. If Iran made these demands of the us, would trump bow down? Not likely.
Donald – you and the rest of your war mongering cronies need to pull your heads in.

When are the americans going to wake up to the fact they are not the world police and they have no right forcing their will on other sovereign nations, regardless of who they are. If Iran made these demands of the us, would trump bow down Not likely.
Donald – you and the rest of your war mongering cronies in america and israel need to pull your heads. Nobody likes you.

It is not a question of being the policeman of the world; it is a question of national interests.
Perceived national interests is what every government pursues (except megalomaniacal dictators who pursue personal interests.)
It is not in the USA’s national interest to allow Iran to continue on its course, therefore the current USA government has decided to use a new approach to containing Iran.
Previous USA governments used failed approaches, known as appeasement.

President Trump is certainly working to clean up the mess that Obama and Kerry made. You can be sure that eventually there will be bunker buster bombs used to destroy the Iranian nuclear program. We dropped nukes on japan and now they are one of our best friends.